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“Secretary of WAR!” - screams Pete drunkenly, probably

Useful maybe. For what purposes though… getting labor costs down, pumping out stuff fast assuming it’s correct because it’s AI, being ahead of their competitors. Useful as in productive? Maybe for some cases when they know what AI can and can’t do or its limitations. I get the impression from this year’s news stories that a lot of them jumped on it because it was the new thing, following everyone else. A lot got burned, some backtracked where they could, some are quiet but aren’t pursuing it as much as they advertised.

OP is right, companies will go the direction they feel consumers will buy more from, and if that’s a “No AI” slogan, that’s what they’ll put. There’s no regulations on it, so just like before with ingredients or other labeling before rules were set, they’ll lie to get you to buy it. Hell, from a software pov there’s a big thing now on apps being sold as “FOSS” that are not, because there’s no rules to govern it. Caveat emptor.

“No one knows more about construction than me.”

Maybe. It depends on if they raised prices first to capture the losses. I know that seems like what a business would do first and what everyone predicted, but did they?

If it’s true, then Costco just needs to give away free hot dogs meals (drink and side) to their patrons for a year.

Needs a continuation of the help desk, where you end up educating the person on the topic. And at some point get transferred higher up to someone who might actually be able to help, and it disconnects while on hold.

But that won’t make the FBI better, it will just… oh right, it was never about that.

This time it wasn’t projections, but prediction.

I can’t fault her using it in any way to profit. She’s given us warning, we’re not listening, might as well ride this to the end and make some money doing it. While still warning us of what’s pretty damn obvious now.

And… the network cancels it. As usual.

I’ve switched the default search engine in Firefox to DDG finally, and I honestly haven’t noticed a difference in results. This may not be the best praise though, since Google has sucked for a number of years now.

Not in chat, but professional writers will. They know all the short keys for those type characters, including that m dash everyone now associates with being AI. It just shows how much of the training data used came from professional papers and not general discussion areas.

John Connor: We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. The Terminator: It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.

I think it was Robin Williams that had a take on that, only he included the death would be temporary. So you’d wake up from being killed and realize you were a jerk.

Everything seems to be a surprise for this guy.

Did you mention the center wheel click? No? Probably for the best.

It’s partially that. It’s also because printers do suck more now. Had an HP 5p in the 90s that was a workhorse, reliable as hell, and would simply print whatever you sent. period.

Oh, you have that aura too? I like it in that it helps me avoid spending time on fixes, but it’s annoying too because deep in my mind I wonder what really went wrong.

Remember during Covid when he was given a softball question for Trump to respond to the public who might be afraid. He did the same thing. He couldn’t even give a bland, Hollywood President level answer. He attacked the reporter asking it.

That link is a great read, but glosses over the initial issue and apology. What I had read (maybe in your other post) was a self promotion rule was broken, really a minor one if it was a first time thing, and when the artist apologized, or rather I think it was more questioning if what he did was promotion at all (which I think is what sparked the mod to wield their power). Such a little thing that should have stayed in DMs and been resolved simply, but power tripping is a strong drug.

Sometimes? I wouldn’t worry about your unease in walking out of your bank with your money, I’d worry about having your money in that bank where they apparently give money out to anyone.